Category: General

Stand up for Dunya

Posted on by Lawen Azad

The events in Syria, the abhorrent actions of Boko Haram, the increasing violence in Ukraine are just a few headlines that have summoned our attention of late. But now, Kurds in Southern Kurdistan under the protection of the Kurdistan Regional …

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The Kurds and The Amazigh: Two People, One Common Struggle

Posted on by Tasbeeh Herwees

In 2011, in the Eastern city of Benghazi, whispers of dissent gave way to riotous revolution; Libyans took to the streets in unprecedented numbers, chanting anti-regime slogans, carrying signs and waving flags signaling their defiance. Two flags that were heretofore …

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Danish author: Kurds lack a Gandhi

Posted on by Lillian Simonsen

The Danish author Adil Erdem both rebukes and celebrates the Kurdish identity when he is interviewed in a new series on Danish-Kurdish portraits, “KURDISH PROFILE,” as he answers personal questions about his Kurdish origin. Published first on the left-wing web …

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School fire in Iran kills Kurdish girl

Posted on by Kastur

On December 5th, 2012, in a Kurdish inhabited village called Shinawa near Piranshaar in Iran, on a cold morning while all 37 students of the class, all girls in the age between 6 to 10,  were in the class room with …

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Head of Danish-Kurdish Academic Association: “An unjust law is no law”

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

On September 18th the Danish police conducted a search in a Kurdish community center in Copenhagen in order to find evidence of money transactions between Kurds in Denmark and the Kurdish rebel group, PKK. 8 Kurds were arrested for having …

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Explosion at Intelligence Center in Qamişlo

Posted on by Naila Bozo

The Kurdish Youth Movement (Tevgera Ciwanên Kurd, TCK) in West Kurdistan (Northeast Syria) has confirmed that an explosion has taken place today at a Syrian intelligence center in Qamişlo. The explosion could be heard in the western part of the …

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Bianet: 1 Year 3 Months Imprisonment for Leyla Zana

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

A court in Diyabakır has sentenced Kurdish politician Leyla Zana to 1 year and 3 months imprisonment for allegedly spreading PKK propaganda in a speech made at a seminar at London’s SOAS University on 24 May 2008.

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HROK: People arrested and detained in Mahabad

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

On the 13th of July, traders and businessmen of northern towns of Kurdistan went on strike, which were widespread in cities such as Saqez and Bokan. In Mahabad these strikes were particularly extensive.

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